Ophiuroidea, Bathonian, Oundle, Northamptonshire, UK (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.5° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Hess. 1964. Die Ophiuren des englischen Jura. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetia 57(2):755-821 [L. Villier/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59036: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Ophiohybris griesbachii Wright 1854 brittle star